Today my group and I attended the Dobrolubov Readings conference.
At the beginning the rector of LUNN said a welcoming speech about the importance of Dobrolubov`s works. Also some guests from Moscow told us about their emotions about NN and LUNN.
Dobrolubov was 25 when he died, but he worked really very hard and became a famous journalist, poet and critic. In 1858 he wrote 75 articles! He always said he wasn`t a poet, but he wrote such a beautiful poems that you can find in his collection of nine books. Another fact about Dobrolubov is that when he was 18 his parents died and he had to bring up seven siblings. He did this job brilliant – all his sisters were married to aristocratic people and all of them were well-educated.
During the conference we heard four presentations. The first one was about Vasily Vinogradov, Dobrolubov`s relative. Honestly? I didn`t remember what was the second presentation about, because it was a little boring. The third one was about The Great Patriotic War. Tatyana Pavlovna Vinogradova showed us a film that was filmed by students about their family during the war. The fourth presentation was about Sergei Dovlatov.
I learned that in 1986 there was The All-Russian industrial and art exhibition in NN.
After the conference there was a concert. The first was a man with a guitar who song two his own songs. Both of them were about his native city – NN. The second one was a choir of eight women. Their voices were amazing. But unfortunately we had to go to the next lecture, so we heard only three songs.
I like this conference because we learned lots of new information about NN and Dobrolubov.